Council: Front and Center

TRUMP: I TALK ABOUT DENUCLEARIZATION WITH CHINA ALL THE TIME The eyes of the world were on Beijing this week as President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi met for a highly anticipated bilateral summit. It was reported that the leaders emphasized interest in a stable relationship between the two countries, discussing enhanced economic cooperation and market access as well as […]

TRUMP SAYS USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN IRAN IS OFF THE TABLE We will soon enter our third month of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran with no clear off-ramps in sight. On April 21, President Donald Trump unliterally extended a ceasefire with Iran for an indefinite period of time as scheduled negotiations in Pakistan were put on hold. The […]

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CITES NUCLEAR CONCERNS AS REASON FOR WAR IN IRAN On February 28, in the midst of diplomatic negotiations on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the United States and Israel carried out a coordinated military operation against Iran. The Trump administration cited anxiety over Iran’s nuclear weapons program as one of the confusing and sometimes contradictory justifications […]

The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is the Council’s affiliated 501(c)(3) research organization. NEW START EXPIRES AS RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UNITED STATES MEET IN GENEVA Tuesday will mark four years since Russia began its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Russia, Ukraine and the United States held talks in Geneva last week but did not reach any resolutions, as Russia continues to demand land […]

The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is the Council’s affiliated 501(c)(3) research organization. FEBRUARY 5 BEGINS NEW AGE WITHOUT TREATY-MANDATED NUCLEAR RESTRAINT In less than three weeks, we will wake up in a world we have not known in more than 50 years: one without constraints on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals. The New Strategic Arms […]